Decline comes in the wake of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s scholarship push at public institutions

Many New York private colleges and universities that enroll mostly in-state students saw their numbers of undergraduates drop this fall, in the wake of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s scholarship push at public institutions.

The Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York found that at 30 of the 48 private schools that serve mostly New Yorkers, overall enrollment of first-time freshman from New York dropped 8% from last year, to 9,935. At these schools, at least 65% of undergraduates hail from in state.